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Definition of PORNOGRAPHER - 2 dictionary results

por⋅nog⋅ra⋅pher

  [pawr-nog-ruh-fer]
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–noun
a person who writes or sells pornography.
Origin:
1840–50; pornograph(y) + -er 1
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por·nog·ra·phy   (pôr-nŏg'rə-fē)   
n.  

  1. Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal.

  2. The presentation or production of this material.

  3. Lurid or sensational material: "Recent novels about the Holocaust have kept Hitler well offstage [so as] to avoid the ... pornography of the era" (Morris Dickstein).


[French pornographie, from pornographe, pornographer, from Late Greek pornographos, writing about prostitutes : pornē, prostitute; see per-5 in Indo-European roots + graphein, to write; see -graphy.]
por·nog'ra·pher n., por'no·graph'ic (pôr'nə-grāf'ĭk) adj., por'no·graph'i·cal·ly adv.
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